| Knavery 1. (n.) Dishonesty; deceitfulness; petty tricks; fraud; trickery; as, a knavish action. 2. (n.) Roguish or mischievous tricks. Thesaurus Entries abomination, art, artful dodge, artifice, atrocity, bad, baseness, blind, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, degradation, design, device, disgrace, dodge, error, evil, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, infamy, iniquity, intrigue, jugglery, knavishness, little game, maneuver, moral turpitude, move, obliquity, peccancy, plot, ploy, racket, rascality, rascalry, red herring, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, ruse, scampishness, scandal, scheme, scoundrelism, shame, shift, sin, sleight, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wile, wily device, wrong |